People
These people came to America after a series of potato famines.
Who are the Irish?
The Caddo Indians moved here when they sold their land to the Shreve Town Company.
What is Oklahoma?
Which of these is not an example of internal improvements? bridges, canals, railroads, schools
What is schools?
This presidential candidate was nicknamed "the choice of the common man."
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This was the goal of the Anaconda Plan.
What is to gain control of the Mississippi River and defeat the Confederacy?
This was the purpose of the Black Code.
What is to restrict the actions and movement of freedmen?
The subject of most of John James Audubon's drawings.
What is birds?
This name was given to black farm workers who moved to Kansas after Reconstruction.
What is exodusters?
Circuit riders were members of this profession.
Who are ministers?
This is why Lincoln's name was left off the ballot in Louisiana?
What is LA did not recognize the Republican party?
The longest siege in the Civil War was here.
What is Port Hudson?
The National government did this to ensure the election of Rutherford B. Hayes.
What is remove federal troops from the South?
He was known as the "brains of the Confederacy."
Who is Judah P. Benjamin?
This caused the decline in the popularity of the Shed Road.
What is the Railroad?
This system is where a planter provided land, tools, a cabin and a share of the profits in return for a farmer providing the labor to raise a crop.
What is sharecropping?
This was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is to pressure the Confederates to end the war?
This city was the final destination of the Union campaign in Louisiana.
What is Shreveport?
This system allowed farmers to borrow against next year's crop to pay the current year's expenses.
What is crop lien?
He was commander of the US Navy at New Orleans.
Who was David Farragut?
What was the political party of whites in the South?
Who are Democrats?
This is the name of a person or group that holds extremist viewpoints and wants drastic changes.
What is a radical?
This is why the 1864 LA constitutional convention reopened.
What is to give freedmen the right to vote?
This Union general was known as "Beast" because of his treatment of Confederates.
Who is Benjamin Butler?
They said, "We believe that the powers of gov't should be expanded...to the end that oppression, injustice, and poverty shall eventually cease in the land."
Who were the Populists?
He was the first African American to be elected to a statewide office in LA.
Who is Oscar Dunn?
This is why the state of LA adopted the convict lease system?
What is to earn money?
This name was used to describe the Redeemer Democrats.
What are Bourbons?
He was the first African American to serve as governor of any state.
Who is P.B.S. Pinchback?
In the latter stages of the war, this city served as the Confederate capital of Louisiana.
What is Shreveport?
This Supreme Court Case established the "separate but equal" clause.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson